![]() "Did you hear about the First National Tree Bank?"."I've seen one no bigger than my hand."."What's the smallest full-grown tree you ever heard of?".The four conversation options that the game presents to players are randomly generated, but you will always be able to tell one of the following three great jokes: ![]() ![]() I've seen much weirder stuff than talking trees where I'm from." If you mess the joke up, just reload your save again. You need to tell the tree a joke, but you need to get the joke right on your first attempt. Leave the ship and cross the bridge into the woods. Is the game worth $24.99 USD?: Yes, this is about the right price for an adventure game with high production values.Now we need to sort out the electronic genius, the radiation suit and fix the ship's undercarriage. The ending itself isn't terribly satisfying either but high production values helps to save this game from being just average.īroken Age is available from these retailers: Score – 8/10Act 2 of Broken Age ramps up the difficulty of the puzzles slightly but in an unsatisfying way. The game still has a clunky inventory system but overall the game is pretty well polished. Consequently, I'm tempted to replay Act 1 if only to get some more Steam Achievements (gotta catch 'em all!) Remember when I was wondering why they didn't have Steam Achievements for this game? Well, there are now Steam Achievements for this game. Not enough point 'n' click adventures are taking this approach and I reckon more should. I especially like a jazzy number called "Vella's Mission". Once again you've got great music thanks to veteran composer Peter McConnell and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. "The reason why you need to switch characters in Act 2 is a bit convoluted and breaks the fourth wall but I guess I shouldn't complain since I got my wish in the end!"Īs it was in the first act, you've still got top notch voice acting thanks to professional voice actors and famous screen actors such as Elijah Wood, Wil Wheaton and Jack Black. I even had to look up a walkthrough once despite the answer staring at me in the face (I knew what I had to do I just couldn't see where on the screen the vital information was)! Other than that, the game obviously works the same way as in Act 1 however some will be thankful that the puzzles are slightly more difficult (except for the aforementioned puzzles that involve breaking the fourth wall). The reason why you need to switch characters in Act 2 is a bit convoluted and breaks the fourth wall but I guess I shouldn't complain since I got my wish in the end! Remember when I wondered what was the point of switching characters in Act 1? Well there is a point to doing it now (I'm not going to tell you why though because it's part of one of the puzzles). Despite a short epilogue of pictures playing during the credits, there are still too many loose ends and you'll be wondering “is that it? Surely there's more to this tale." There isn't much focus on character development and I think that's partly why the ending itself isn't very satisfactory – you just don't care what happens to the characters. While from a gameplay standpoint, the puzzles are more challenging than Act 1, Act 2 seems pretty light on the story. In Act 2, all the conspiracies are revealed for what they truly are and both Shay and Vella (our two protagonists) are thrust into alien worlds: Shay ends up traversing around Shellmound and Meriloft meeting characters that know Vella and Vella ends up traversing around Shay's floating ship, the Bossa Nostra (aka Mog Chothra). It goes without saying that there are going to be spoilers so don't read any further if you haven't finished Act 1 yet. ![]() While I really enjoyed the first act of the game, giving it a rarely awarded 9/10, does the second act of the game conclude in a satisfactory manner? Is it in any way more challenging than the first act? Well it's taken over a year to finally receive the second act of Broken Age but in late April it was finally released! While a lot of controversy surrounds the development of Broken Age, especially it going over-budget when it received $3.3 million in funding and even Tim Schafer and other Double Fine games in general, I'm going to try to keep the politics aside for this review and judge the game on its own merits.
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